LESSON FORTY-EIGHT 
MARKETING LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCTS 
1. Market end—The stockman’s work is to raise 
products for sale. The substances with which he works 
are the raw material of the fields, the tools by which he 
builds and manufactures are his animals, and the finished 
articles are the products yielded by them in their keep 
or growth. He cares for his animals, thinks in their 
interest, works for their comfort, and labors for their 
highest and best development, not because he seeks a 
congenial employment only, but primarily to market the 
products obtained for the financial reward these animals 
command, and to meet the food and other necessities of 
town and city inhabitants. Raising live stock is a fine 
business and worthy of the best minds and hearts of 
the land. 
2. Classes of animal products.—There are two classes 
of animal products: the animals themselves and the prod- 
ucts derived from them. The dairy cow yields milk, 
butter and cheese, the steer meat and by-products ob- 
tained at his slaughter, the sheep mutton and wool, the 
poultry tribe eggs, feathers, and meat, and the hog his 
flesh and fat. The problem of marketing the farm stock 
of the country and their products requires the combined 
effort of thousands of people and of millions of dollars 
of capital. On an average the animals sold from the 
farm and the animals slaughtered on it together number 
about 111,000,000 head each year. The farm value of 
the dairy products is $830,000,000 annually. The wool 
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